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Meanings of blowtorch in English

Portuguese
maçarico

A burner that mixes air and gas to produce a very hot flame.

maçarico
Usage of blowtorch in English
1
She must have discovered a shop where they'd eliminated the blowtorch demonstration.
Pasta Imperfect
2
They were still beautiful, still fragile, but they had defied the blowtorch.
The Vital Abyss
3
It doesn't so much break the ice as blowtorch clean through it.
The Guardian
4
I had a sinking feeling, visualized a moth flapping toward a blowtorch.
John Dies at the End
5
Alternatively, run a blowtorch over the meringue until it is nicely caramelized.
Cooking for friends
6
A cultural quantum leap; a blowtorch to the head; an iced-water enema.
The Irish Times
7
Give that man a cigar and a blowtorch to light it with!
Misery
8
The blowtorch hissed and chuckled softly to itself in the quiet room.
Altered carbon
9
Her eyes alone burnt hot blue, like the flame of a blowtorch.
The Fireman
10
As a young writer my father was a blowtorch of energy.
Wait until spring, bandini
11
Harris said: It seems that the railway line was cut with a blowtorch.
The South African
12
Unarmed, yes, but about as defenseless as a blowtorch in a dynamite factory.
Midnight hero
13
Holland held aloft a blowtorch attached to a canister of propane.
The arms maker of berlin
14
The tips of the meringue can be lightly caramelised with a cook's blowtorch.
Radio NZ
15
Her eyes, full of tears, were the clear, intense blue of a blowtorch.
Heart-shaped box
16
Out came a bedside table in a crazy race with a bounding blowtorch.
Cat’s Cradle
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Translations for blowtorch
Portuguese
maçarico
Blowtorch through the time
Blowtorch across language varieties
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